Copy files from remote server over ssh inside a loop

Question

I'm trying to download some files over ssh. Files are in folders (folder1 folder2 folder3), so I decided to loop.

The following doesn't work:

ssh user@remotehost 'for i in 1 2 3; for filename in /folder$i/*.log; do cat /$filename > /localdrive; done; done;'

Any hint? Thanks!

Answer 1

Try

rsync -e ssh --include '*.log' --exclude '*' username@yourserver:/folder[1-3]/ /'yourlocaldirectory'

Rysnc uses scp internally.

OR for AIX system(as yours): Use:

scp remote:"/folser[1-3]/*.txt" local:/'yourlocaldirectory'

Hope it resolves your issue!